Gilles Gagniard

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A guide to ethical vibe coding with local models :: /home/gilles

Introduction This article is a practical guide to installing Large Language Models on your own hardware, along with local inference tools, and use them for assisted software development through locally executed agents. It is primarily oriented toward Linux users; the same tools are available on macOS as well so it shouldn’t be too complex to adapt. Why local ? It is nearly certain that Generative AI is a financial bubble waiting to burst at any moment, and that the environmental impacts of AI da

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State of Wayland (April 2026), or Why NVIDIA (as usual) is holding us back :: /home/gilles

Why this ? After a year (a bit more actually!), I’ve decided to give a chance again to this 20 years old new-kid-on-the-block1 that is Wayland on my Plasma desktop, and give my previous entry on this topic a follow-up. The good surprise Actually, a lot happened during 2025! Some issues and shortcomings I had previously documented have been fixed: Firefox (since release 146) now natively supports fractional scaling, including sharp text rendering, save for the occasional right-click popup menu wh

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Mozilla Corporation is toast (?) :: /home/gilles

Caveat I’m a nobody having an uneducated opinion on matters exceeding by far the reach of my comprehension skills. Because we’re on the Internet (c), I’m therefore more than fully qualified to express it! So what’s happening? The Mozilla Corporation has just hired a new CEO who immediately expressed his vision for a bold and bright future where Firefox development effort will be refocused on building a AI platform supporting an ecosystem of AI products.

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